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Article: Fears for the future of flamingoes.(News)
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- The Saturday Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2008
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BYLINE: Sheree Bega
South Africa's only breeding population of lesser flamingoes is under threat from increasing flows of human sewage pouring into their internationally acclaimed artificial breeding island.
And the thousands of flamingoes at Kimberley's Kamfers Dam, a permanent wetland where they bred for the first time earlier this year, may soon be surrounded by a vast housing development.
The S-shaped man-made island, the brainchild of Northern Cape ornithologist Mark Anderson, became the first local breeding site for the near-threatened lesser flamingoes in January.
But as Anderson explains, the treated sewage from burgeoning ...